Vowel discrimination (native)

  • Tsuji & Cristia (2014)
  • N papers = 33, N experiments = 145, N participants = 2491
  • Discrimination of native-language vowels, including results from a variety of methods.
  • Curator is Sho Tsuji
  • Search Strategy: "A full search on scholar.google.com was conducted in September 2012 with the keyword combination “{infant|infancy} & {vowel|speech sound|syllable} & discrimination.” Additionally, the search terms were translated into French, German, Japanese, and Spanish for additional searches. We also asked experts in the field to inform us of any published or unpublished studies we had missed. Experts were defined as scientists having participated in at least two studies identified in our intermediate search sample or who were part of a lab where such research had taken place, and who were still active in the field or could be otherwise contacted. Further, articles were added based on a screening of articles cited and articles citing the articles in the remaining search sample. The complete sample is available as a public resource (Tsuji & Cristia, in preparation, https://sites.google.com/site/inphondb/). The search sample was then narrowed down to the final search sample of 19 articles." (See paper for additional details)
  • Systematic: yes

Albareda-Castellot, B., Pons, F., & Sebastián-Gallés, N. (2011). The acquisition of phonetic categories in bilingual infants: new data from an anticipatory eye movement paradigm. Developmental Science, 14(2), 395-401.

Benders, T. (submitted). Learning phonemes from multiple auditory cues: Dutch infants' language input and perception.

Bergmann, C., & Cristia, A. (2018). Environmental influences on infants’ native vowel discrimination: The case of talker number in daily life. Infancy.

Bohn, O. S., & Polka, L. (2001). Target spectral, dynamic spectral, and duration cues in infant perception of German vowels. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110(1), 504–515.

Bosch, L., & Sebastian-Galles, N. (2003). Simultaneous Bilingualism and the Perception of a Language-Specific Vowel Contrast in the First Year of Life. Language and Speech 46(2-3), 217-243.

Cheour, M., Alho, K., Ceponiene, R., Reinikainen, K., Sainio, K., Pohjavuori, M., Aaltonen, O., & Naatanen, R. (1998). Maturation of mismatch negativity in infants. International Journal of Psychophysiology 29, 217-226.

Cowan, N., Suomi, K. & Morse, P. A. (1982). Echoic storage in infant perception. Child Development, 53(4), 984-990.

Figueras Montiu, M., & Bosch Galceran, L. (2010). Capacidades de discriminación fonética de un contraste vocálico nativo en el prematuro. Psicothema 22(4), 669-676. Retrieved from http://www.unioviedo.es/reunido/index.php/PST/article/view/8935

Gogate, L. J. & Bahrick, L. E. (1998). Intersensory redundancy facilitates learning of arbitrary relations between vowel sounds and objects in 7-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 69 (2), 133-149.

Gogate, L. J. & Bahrick, L. E. (2001). Intersensory redundancy and 7-month-old infants’ memory for syllable-object relations. Infancy, 2 (2), 219-231.

Jansson-Verkalo, E., Ruusuvirta, T., Huotilainen, M., Alku, P., Kushnerenko, E., Suominen, K., Rytky, S., Luotonen, M., Kaukola, T., Tolonen, U., Hallman, M., (2010). Atypical perceptual narrowing in prematurely born infants is associated with compromised language acquisition at 2 years of age. BMC Neuroscience, 11-88.

Jusczyk, P. W., & Derrah, C. (1987). Representation of Speech Sounds by Young Infants. Developmental Psychology, 23(5), 648-654.

Kuhl, P K. (1979). Speech perception in early infancy: perceptual constancy for spectrally dissimilar vowel categories. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 66(6), 1668–1679.

Kuhl, P.K., & Miller, J.D. (1982). Discrimination of auditory target dimensions in the presence or absence of variation in a second dimension by infants. Perception & Psychophysics 31(3), 279-292.

Liu, L. & Kager, R. (2016). Perception of a native vowel contrast by Dutch monolingual and bilingual infants: A bilingual perceptual lead. International Journal of Bilingualismk, 20 (3), 335-345.

Marean, G., Werner, L., & Kuhl, P. (1992). Vowel categorization by very young infants. Developmental Psychology, 28(3), 396-405.

Miller, J. L., & Eimas, P. D. (1979). Organization in infant speech perception. Canadian journal of psychology, 33(4), 353-367.

Minagawa-Kawai, Y., Mori, K., Naoi, N., & Koijima, S. (2007). Neural Attunement Processes in Infants during the Acquisition of a Language-Specific Phonemic Contrast. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27(2), 315–321.

Minagawa-Kawai, Y., Naoi, N., Nishijima, N., Kojima, S., & Dupoux, E. (2007). Developmental Changes in Cerebral Responses to Native and Non-Native Vowels: A NIRS Study]. Proceedings of the International Conference of Phonetic Sciences XVI.

Mugitani, R., Pons, F., Fais, L., Dietrich, C., Werker, J. F., & Amano, S. (2009). Perception of vowel length by Japanese- and English-learning infants. Developmental psychology, 45(1), 236-247.

Mulak KE, Bonn CD, Chládková K, Aslin RN, Escudero P (2017) Indexical and linguistic processing by 12-month-olds: Discrimination of speaker, accent and vowel differences. PLOS ONE 12(5)

Phan, J., & Houston, D. M. (2009). Infant Dialect Discrimination. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125, 2776.

Polka, Linda, & Bohn, O.-S. (2011). Natural Referent Vowel (NRV) framework: An emerging view of early phonetic development. Journal of Phonetics, 39(4), 467–478.

Pons, F., Albareda-Castellot, B., & Sebastian-Galles, N. (2012). The Interplay Between Input and Initial Biases: Asymmetries in Vowel Perception During the First Year of Life. Child Development 83(3), 965-976.

Sato, Y., Mori, K., Furuya, I., Hayashi, R., Minagawa-Kawai, Y., & Koizumi, T. (2003). Developmental changes in cerebral lateralization to spoken language in infants: measured by near-infrared spectroscopy. Jpn J Logoped Phoniatr, 44,165–171.

Sato, Y., Sogabe, Y., & Mazuka, R. (2010). Discrimination of phonemic vowel length by Japanese infants. Developmental psychology, 46(1), 106-119.

Sebastián-Gallés, N., & Bosch, L. (2009). Developmental shift in the discrimination of vowel contrasts in bilingual infants: is the distributional account all there is to it? Developmental science, 12(6), 874–887.

Sundara, M., & Scutellaro, A. (2011). Rhythmic distance between languages affects the development of speech perception in bilingual infants. Journal of Phonetics 39(4), 505-513

Trainor, L. J., & Desjardins, R. N. (2002). Pitch characteristics of infant-directed speech affect infants’ ability to discriminate vowels. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9(2), 335–340.

Trehub, S. E. (1973). Infants Sensitivity to Vowel and Tonal Contrasts. Developmental Psychology, 9(1), 91-96.

Tsuji, S., Fikkert, P., Minagawa, Y., Dupoux, E., Filippin, L., Versteegh, M., Hagoort, P., & Cristia, A. (2017). The more, the better? Behavioral and neural correlates of frequent and infrequent vowel exposure. Developmental Psychobiology.

Versteegh, M., Tsuji, S., Fikkert, P., & Cristia, A. (2015, July 30). Adjudicating between auditory models using individual variation in infant vowel discrimination. Retrieved from osf.io/94xzr.